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> I expect the readers of HN are capable of doing Google searches or browsing through http://www.opensecrets.org/ http://www.opensecrets.org/. I've done the se
by anamax 16y ago
> I expect the readers of HN are capable of doing Google searches or browsing through http://www.opensecrets.org/ http://www.opensecrets.org/.
I've done the searches - they don't show what you claimed. I asked because I could have missed something. So let's use your link and see what we find.
http://www.opensecrets.org/usearch/index.php?q=tea+party http://www.opensecrets.org/usearch/index.php?q=tea+party
shows three organizations, all local, which have raised $150k, $13k, and less than $1k.
That pretty much disproves your claim.
- asnyder 16y agoWhat sort of nonsense is this? You do a search for tea party, which yields some small local organizations, with relatively no donations. When I refer to tea party, I'm referring to actual candidates. For example, Sharron Angle, Mark Rubio, Rand Paul. Look at the PAC donations to these people. Look at the sort of people who contribute. You do a poor search and then conclude that I'm wrong based on your poor research ability.
- sigstoat 16y agoit isn't clear to me how he was supposed to realize that by "tea party" you were actually referring to a specific list of politicians you had in mind, but had not named. would a different list of tea party-connected politicians suffice, or did he specifically need to guess those three in order to have good "research ability"?